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Monday, January 9, 2012

Obama’s White House Tea Party - NYPOST.com

It was the tea party the Obamas just couldn’t resist.

A White
House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball — put on by Johnny Depp and
Hollywood director Tim Burton — proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that
was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard
economic times, according to a new tell-all.

“The Obamas,” by New
York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, tells of the first Halloween party
the first couple feted at the White House in 2009. It was so over the
top that “Star Wars” creator George Lucas sent the original Chewbacca to
mingle with invited guests.

The book reveals how any official announcement of the glittering
affair — coming at a time when Tea Party activists and voters furious
over the lagging economy, 10-percent unemployment rate, bank bailouts
and Obama’s health-care plan were staging protests — quickly vanished
down the rabbit hole.

“White House officials were so nervous
about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless
Americans — or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on
health care — that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton’s
and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged,” the book says.

However,
the White House made certain that more humble Halloween festivities
earlier that day — for thousands of Washington-area schoolkids — were
well reported by the press corps.

Then the Obamas went inside,
where an invitation-only affair for children of military personnel and
White House administrators unfolded in the East Room.

Unbeknownst to reporters, the State Dining Room had also been transformed into a secretive White House Wonderland.

Tim Burton decorated it “in his signature creepy-comic style. His film
version was about to be released, and he had turned the room into the
Mad Hatter’s tea party, with a long table set with antique-looking
linens, enormous stuffed animals in chairs, and tiered serving plates
with treats like bone-shaped meringue cookies,” reports the book, which
The Post purchased at a Manhattan bookstore.

“Fruit punch was
served in blood vials at the bar. Burton’s own Mad Hatter, the actor
Johnny Depp, presided over the scene in full costume, standing up on a
table to welcome everyone in character.”